I’m new to Linux, using Kubuntu. I got Left 4 Dead 1 installed from Steam and I’m using Proton 8.0. I get an error saying “An error occurred while launching this game: invalid app configuration”. Is there a launch option I should be using? Something else?

  • simple@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    When in doubt check out Protondb, it’s a database that says whether games work on Proton or not and people often put fixes there.

    Left 4 dead’s page is here: https://www.protondb.com/app/500

    It seems like it should work but you need to right click the game --> properties then add -w 1920 -h 1080 as launch options.

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    11 months ago

    Try cycling through other proton versions as well. I don’t really understand why some games will work on older versions and not newer ones, but it happens.

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    11 months ago

    When it happens I usually run my steam from the terminal, some errors from the game would appear there

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    11 months ago

    That’s strange it works flawlessly on my SteamDeck. I can check what proton version it’s using later today.

  • phx@lemmy.ca
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    11 months ago

    Any particular reason why you are using Proton? I believe there’s a native version of it for Linux (or at least there used to be).